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Cast-off
see synonyms of cast-offAdjective
1. cast-off, discarded, throwaway, thrown-away
thrown away
Example Sentences:'wearing someone's cast-off clothes''throwaway children living on the streets''salvaged some thrown-away furniture'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Cast-off
see synonyms of cast-offadjective
1. (prenominal)
thrown away; abandoned
cast-off shoes
noun castoff
2.
a person or thing that has been discarded or abandoned
3. printing
an estimate of the amount of space that a piece of copy will occupy when printed in a particular size and style of type
verb cast off (adverb)
4.
to remove (mooring lines) that hold (a vessel) to a dock
5.
to knot (a row of stitches, esp the final row) in finishing off knitted or woven material
6. printing
to estimate the amount of space that will be taken up by (a book, piece of copy, etc) when it is printed in a particular size and style of type
7. (intransitive)
(in Scottish country dancing) to perform a progressive movement during which each partner of a couple dances separately behind one line of the set and then reunites with the other in their original position in the set or in a new position
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Cast-off
see synonyms of cast-off1.
to discard; abandon; disown
2.
to set free
3.
to release or disengage the line or lines holding a vessel in place beside a dock, quay, etc.
4. Knitting
to make the last row of stitches
5. Printing
to estimate how many lines or pages of type will be set from (a given amount of copy)
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